Time Management for Bloggers: My All-Time Favorite Tip/Tool
You may have read part 1 and part 2 of my Time Management for Bloggers series, but I have saved the best for last. If you’ve been around these parts for a while, you’ve already read about how this saved my blog. That’s right… my all time, absolute favorite tip/tool for blogging time management is an editorial calendar!
Using an editorial calendar saved me from giving up on this entire blog. It brought organization and logic to what has always been such a random, un-systematic process in the past. I know a lot of bloggers put together a post each day at a time. For me, being the detailed, predictable person that I am, that method was a bit too chaotic. Chaos drains all of the creativity out of me.
My basic system for using an editorial calendar (affiliate link) is as follows…
- Brainstorm: Well before the next month begins, brainstorm a long list of potential post ideas. No idea is too little or too ridiculous, write them all down. Need help with ideas? Check out my list of 70+ monthly topic ideas for your editorial calendar.
- Categorize: Come up with a few different categories or topics that you typically write about. It’s going to help in the next step.
- Fill in your calendar: Take your list of brainstormed posts and fill in your editorial calendar with the ones you like best. Give each post a “category” that it falls under from the step above. If you find that you’re talking about the same topic multiple times in one week, move the posts around until you find a balance.
- Adjust throughout the month as needed: if opportunities arise throughout the month for sponsored posts, or maybe something crazy happens to you that you just have to blog about, by all means make the editorial calendar work for you. I have yet to have a month where I stay totally in line with the 1st edition of that month’s calendar.
Using these four basic techniques makes creating a monthly editorial calendar pretty simple. If you want to go even more in depth with editorial calendars, I highly recommend taking the Content Brew e-course (affiliate link) from Melissa at Blog Clarity. I can’t say enough good things about the course, I refer to the extra materials that came along with the course almost daily.
Do you have a be all, end all tip that revolutionized your blogging? I would love to hear about it in the comments below!
I am really enjoying this series! Thank you
Glad you liked it 🙂
i realllllly need to start creating a blog calendar – it would be super helpful!
This is kind of off the subject, but my favorite tip is to carry a post-it pad and a pen wherever you go. I have done this for years; great bloggging material happens ALL THE TIME, and if you jot it down quickly, you'll be able to get back to it later!
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Those are great organizational tips for blogging! I never have trouble coming up with post ideas- I don't know what that says about my content, when so many bloggers I admire struggle with it. My main issue is the time management- finding/making time for scheduling blog posts and reading/commenting on friends' blogs around the rest of my day-to-day. :/
haha. Post-its are a great idea, I'll have to put a pad in my car!
You are probably better at not smothering ideas with the pressure of making everyone happy, that's my problem. I think I need to get back to my roots a little and write more straight from my heart.
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